Eric,
You are an asshole.
Best Wishes,
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Auer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 10:53 AM
Subject: [Freedos-devel] Hope for HTMLHELP, peace on the list, and a new ISO
(was: EMM386, Kernel and Help)
Hi all, after getting several comments on my "Did Robert move to
Mars or what?" style reaction to the fact that HTMLHELP still has
a long-standing long-fixed bug due to the sources for the fix
being kind of lost, I think I should offer my excuses for being
so harsh...
What I meant to say was "come on, you have the fixed binary, how hard
can it be to get the sources for it?". Not anything like "Go and hang
Robert higher".
The good news is that a fix would not even necessarily involve a lot
of changes to the sources. As HTMLHELP gets unstable as even little
less than the first 64k are in use, there must be some evil pointer
normalization wraparound in a pointer which would normally point to
some early place in the HTMLHELP memory. So I would guess that the bug
is something like a Makefile issue or zlib compile troubles with the
used memory model. I hope that somebody can reconstruct the fix, but
still - it must be possible to find back the old fix somewhere...
As usual, my getting impatient with the distro maintenance can be
related to others getting impatient with my other work. I think you
should know that I will probably be very busy with my studies for
the next two months, so any "Hey Eric, don't complain, just fix it
yourself" will alas only have limited success chances.
My best wishes to those who still combine heavy work (as in: earn
actual money to live) with bringing FreeDOS further, like Alain or
Jeremy (I do not know how busy Michael is kept by his normal job,
but he certainly spend loads of time on improving EMM386).
Of course those were just a small pick, anybody who feels he should
have been mentioned but did not is not supposed to take it personal!
Argh! More hostility coming on, putting on my fireproof coat...
Somebody who certainly will not need a fireproof coat those days
is Blair. If YOU can offer him webspace or BitTorrent seeds for
two (100 plus 200 MB) files, then HE can share his highly extended
(basically ALL packages on our LSM software database) FreeDOS ISO
image with us :-). Thanks for collecting all the packages! Note that
people should generally download the 100 MB (no sources) version, as
it is highly unlikely that you want the sources of ALL packages. To
save bandwidth, the sources should better be downloaded directly and
only for the packages for which you are actualyl interested in them.
Eric
PS: Also thanks to Jim for bearing my recent flood of LSM
update wishes. I should really figure out how to edit the
database, time permitting. Probably not THAT hard after all.
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